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English Standard Version ESV
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
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The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
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But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
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Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
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